Tooley Orion ( choice sako or m16 extractor, melonited bolt for $850) IMO best buy and smooth on the market.

Stiller

BAT- love for a comp gun, but action is too soft metal for reliable hunting gun. I have seen one grain of sand lock a BAT up twice to the point a gunsmith had to take the barrel off.

Barrels

Cut rifled- Krieger, Brux, Bartlein

Button Rifled- Hart, Douglas, Broughton

Stocks

Manners

McMillan

Stockys Bobby Hart LR stock and it is only $300 with bedding block, clear coated, recoil pad installed, with sling studs ready to drop in action. Plus will run with any other stock out there.

Russo if you want a top quality custom wood stock that is work of art.

I think truing a 700 is a big waste of money with todays cost effective and more reliable clones.

Any 700 sells for $400 used before you spend $300-500 on action and bolt and sells for only $450 after and is never as smooth or reliable!!! Absolutely undisputed on that.

Oh, you will have those that say it is cheaper, and I will agree it is "cheaper" initially, but more expensive in the long run and if in a magnum you have a rivited extractor that can and has broken in the middle of a hunting trip. You can fix that by replacing the 700 bolt $250 with a PTG bolt, but when you add that to the truing, you are now at or over cost of a reliable clone and still have a $450-500 action at best.

I said Defiance because they have a spiral fluted bolt with M16 stlye extrator and speedlock assembly, much heavier construction, HD integrated recoil lug, is machined with 0 to 40 moa permanent rail, excepts 3.850" mags, larger in some models, also has a nice side bolt release. Did I mention they are smooth as silk! 11-1200.00$

It has become very difficult to obtain a surgeon action these days, with some folks reporting close to a year wait. Bighorn actions also a long wait these days. I think my next build will be off of a Defiance Deviant or Mutant...gorgeous actions.

I did a lot of research on BAT actions before using one on a long range 7 mag. The apparently rare instances of the action locking up on a grain of sand was attributed to very tight tolerances, not soft steel.
In any event, I have had no trouble what so ever with mine, but I also don't usually roll my rifle around in the dirt.

My Stiller Predator has given flawless service as well.

I had a rifle built on a trued 700 action once, and it was a fine shooting rifle that also never gave me any trouble. I looked again at a trued Remmy, but by time I had one done the way I wanted, it was within a couple hundred bucks of the Stiller, so I went with the full custom action.
BAT is in a different league.

I did a lot of research on BAT actions before using one on a long range 7 mag. The apparently rare instances of the action locking up on a grain of sand was attributed to very tight tolerances, not soft steel.
In any event, I have had no trouble what so ever with mine, but I also don't usually roll my rifle around in the dirt.

My Stiller Predator has given flawless service as well.

I had a rifle built on a trued 700 action once, and it was a fine shooting rifle that also never gave me any trouble. I looked again at a trued Remmy, but by time I had one done the way I wanted, it was within a couple hundred bucks of the Stiller, so I went with the full custom action.
BAT is in a different league.

Its goes from rare to regular in a dusty desert shoot.
Bat isn't the only one that locks up.
Snipers hide used to have a rifles of shame video...pretty telling.